(n.) Someone from southern or eastern asia according to a now obsolete racial classification. The name is given, probably as a result of genghis khan's mongol empire, which saw mongols breed with the natives of most asian races/tribes. The key factors in deciding whether a skull is mongoloid or not lie in the eyes and nose.

One with low intelligence or Down Syndrome. One in particular (mentioned by a certain post-punk group) leads a normal life, and nobody notices he's a mongoloid, and he's happy that way.

Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
Happier than you and me.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
And it determined what he could see.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
One chromosome too many.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
And it determined what he could see.

And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew

He was a mongoloid, mongoloid.
His friends were unaware.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
Nobody even cared.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
One chromosome too many.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
And it determined what he could see

And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew

He was a mongoloid, mongoloid.
Happier than you and me.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
And it determined what he could see.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
One chromosome too many.
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid.
And it determined what he could see.

And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew

A term used to describe the people of East Asia, that is no longer considered politically correct in general usage, but is still used by anthropologists. It derives from the mistaken belief that the East Asian racial type originated in Mongolia.

Some experts classify Native Americans as Mongoloid while others classify them as a separate race.